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Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volume 16, 2014

Electrical Control of Epilepsy

Abstract

Epilepsy afflicts approximately 1–2% of the world's population. The mainstay therapy for treating the chronic recurrent seizures that are emblematic of epilepsy are drugs that manipulate levels of neuronal excitability in the brain. However, approximately one-third of all epilepsy patients get little to no clinical relief from this therapeutic regimen. The use of electrical stimulation in many forms to treat drug-refractory epilepsy has grown markedly over the past few decades, with some devices and protocols being increasingly used as standard clinical treatment. This article seeks to review the fundamental modes of applying electrical stimulation—from the noninvasive to the nominally invasive to deep brain stimulation—for the control of seizures in epileptic patients. Therapeutic practices from the commonly deployed clinically to the experimental are discussed to provide an overview of the innovative neural engineering approaches being explored to treat this difficult disease.

Keyword(s): brain, electrophysiology, seizures, stimulation, therapy
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Electrical Control of Epilepsy
Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering 16, 483 (2014); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071813-104720
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